Wow, my private university was "only" 15,000 a year. Funny thing was, it was much cheaper to go part time - the part-time credit cost was less than half. And I got work to pay for it. So I only went one year at that cost.
Hope Clare's school ends up being more Catholic than the one I went to, though I didn't really mind, not being Catholic myself.
Ave Maria was created specifically because so many nominally Catholic schools seem to have lost their identity. They have gotten too overly concerned about becoming more secular. If I didn't want her faith to be supported, I'd send her to a cheaper school than Notre Dame or Boston College!